FRUSTRATED!!!!!!

So very frustrated right now!!!! Our move out date doesn't look like it will happen...

Nath went out to the caravan yesterday to put something in it only to have to mop out the water from all the rain we have had...He managed to get half a mop bucket!

Why cant things just be easy?!?!

We are trying to improve our lives and our children's lives and futures by doing this but it just seems that we hit a roadblock every time we try to do something!!!!

So now we have to try and work out what is leaking and fix that, reseal the floor, finish the walls, redo all the cupboards, make the bed frame, make all the cushion covers and try to get the pop top canvas redone!!! Don't think it will happen in a month :(

So sad as it means our house is further and further away :(

What to do?

So hand surgery really means that things get pushed back a bit :(
I keep asking Nath if he is ever going to work on the caravan and I just keep getting told yes and that he just hasn't had time as he has been so busy...Um he has had over a week off...yes that was to look after the kids but Hayden is more than happy to help (I mean hinder lol).

He also hardly has anything on a work so could very easily make phone calls about parts that he needs.

As for me I have been recovering...You really don't realise how much you use your hand until you cant.

Packing as all but come to a standstill and the best tat I have done is add to the growing mountain of washing that is on the couch just waiting to be sorted and packed and passed on...

Motivation where are you?!?!?! I should be excited for this new adventure. I am but it is a big thing to just up and live in a caravan  for over a year.

Not really sleeping at night going over and over what needs to be done, what needs to be packed away and what needs to fit into the itty bitty caravan...with Christmas coming up it is making it even more difficult as I am trying to decide what to get the kids that will not over crowd us or that can stay at others houses.

Getting into the caravan doesn't look like it will happen before Christmas anymore :( Very upsetting as the longer we take to get into it the longer it will be before we will be in our own house and we were really hoping to be in it before Hayden started at kindergarten....

Not really getting anywhere

So I don't know if its the thought of having to live in the caravan or something else but we just seem to be going nowhere fast!

There hasn't been any work done on the caravan for about a month so it is still pretty much an empty shell. And packing has come to a standstill.

I know for me that the thought of living in a caravan on my mums front lawn is so not appealing but unfortunately we have to do it otherwise we will never get our own home which we desperately want!

But regardless of our not wanting to do it it needs to be done so we really need to start getting our act together real fast or getting out before Christmas is just not going to happen.

Things that have been packed

As much as I have been procrastinating with the packing we have packed quite a few things. Some of which have made me shed a few tears as silly as that sounds and some things that I am happy to see be put away for now.

The hardest thing to see packed up was my precious photos. I have mentioned this in a previous post but that just shows how important they are to me. Along with the photos were the hand and feet moulds that were done of my kids when they were little. Things like this make this house no longer feel like my home.

The next thing that really brought tears to my eyes was packing away my daughters cot. I am such an emotional person when it comes to things like that. I cried packing it away as she will never be in it again! Even when we buy our house she will be nearly 3 so no point bringing it out again for her :( I  hate acknowledging that the kids are growing up so quickly.

The other thing that has been packed away are my books! Reading is my escape from reality so it was sad to be packing them up. I guess I should go renew my library card but then again reading would really distract me from the job at hand so would probably not be a good thing :s I am putting it off as much as I can so borrowing some books would just make it worse :)

A few things that I am happy to see the back of for now though are things like all the crockery. We have no cupboard space in this house at all and it drives me insane (ironic seeing as how we are moving into a space with no cupboards what-so-ever) so it is good to get them packed and to have some space as I move things around. I swear that I am making more mess as I try to clean and get sorted.

Packing & Organising!

So we think we have finally set a moving date. Lets see what happens! Things have been slowed down a bit due to weather problems and naths computer being stuck at work for over a month (this had all the designs and mesurements for the kitchen and cupboards) and the fact that we had to move the caravn due to an unhappy realestate agent.

Everyday I wake up thinking about what I have to do today to make the transition easier but then I actually get out of bed and look at all the boxes and stuff and just lose all motivation :s

I think moving house would be so much easier! Just put everything into boxes load up you truck or ute and just drive to the next house. Moving into a caravan is not so easy. The list of things i cant take is endless so over half our house is going into storage...Thankfully we are able to store at peoples houses and not hire storage facility.

There are so many things we wish we could take but cant :( For nath is is probably his nespresso machine, for the kids it would be all the piles and piles of toys that they have. For myself its something a lot more personal. Its breaking my heart that i cant have family photos. I dont remember having photos around the house when i was growing up so that was one thing I really wanted in my own house.

The photos have been packed up and are sitting in storage. It is good though as my house no longer feels like my home so I just want to get out and into the caravan so we can get into our new home quicker.

Still have no motivation to get packed though lol. The best i can do at the moment is try and get all our washing done. Maybe by the next time i will have done a little more

You're moving into what?

When I tell people that we are moving into a caravan for 12 to 18 months their reactions are very interesting. Most people tell me that they think its great that we are going around Australia for that long, others think we are carazy for doing the trip with the kids being so young.

The truth is though we are moving into a caravan for that long to save up so that we can buy our dream home!

Sounds crazy right?! We have 2 children 3 1/2 & 1 1/2, a dog and the guniea pig so maybe it is a bit crazy.

We would love nothing more than to hook up the caravan to Jackie (our 4wd), chuck the kids in their seats and the dog in the back. But unfortuneately reality is not that exciting! We need money to do that hence why we are moving into a caravan on my mums front lawn. We need to save for that ideal house and to set up a better future for our kids.